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rating for Red Hat, Inc.

3.0 A Disappointment posted on December 04, 2006

I've always grown up with Linux, and Red Hat has always been at the forefront. Working at Red Hat *should* have been a dream come true, sadly it is a disappointment.

It is *not* an open source company. It is a traditional, close-minded closed-src company with byzantine practices that just *happens* to promote an open source product.

There is no openness or collaborativeness in the way the company is run. Riddled with archaic processes reminiscent of an auditing firm from a bygone era. And quality seems to take second place to being cheap. A penny-pinching mentality (that probably costs more than in saves when you consider staff turnover and productivity), starting from senior management, permeates through the company and can be very demotivating.

That said, being an engineer myself, you are surrounded by some of the best minds in the engineering world and a passion for brilliance does exist on that one plane. So, a great place if you are an uber-geek with little else to your persona. :-)

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